Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, and Top of the Rock

This is one of my FAVORITE pictures from the whole trip!  This was inside "the rock" with a BIG window with Radio City Music Hall behind!  




Dinner with the lovely ladies at Michael Jordan's restaurant inside Grand Central Station







This is the beginning of the Top of the Rock experience- above us was the most gorgeous Swarovski Crystal hanging down from the ceiling


Above: (the best picture I could get to turn out) at the TOP OF THE ROCK- with the Empire State Building in the background!


Dinner inside Grand Central Station, directly below the Empire State Building!

Our afternoon was FAR from being over when the Greenwich Village Food tour had ended, we still had at 3pm West Side Story show to catch! So, we hopped on the subway and landed right in our seats for the show! It was an excellent performance, this show recently opened on Broadway, so there wasn't an empty seat in the house! The Maria and Tony characters where unbelievable! 
After the show, we had made reservations at one of the little local spots in Greenwich Village at 6pm, but after lounging around the hotel (really the first "lounge" we had all trip)- we decided we wanted to eat somewhere closer to us.  Fortunately our hotel was RIGHT in the middle of Time Square and we were in an arms length of "restaurant row"-  I got on my handy dandy IPhone and started searching for little "hidden" spots, since we didn't want to go to a chain- and I found Michael Jordan's restaurant located inside Grand Central Station! The food was well rated, and of course the location would be cool, so we walked there!  The food was AMAZING!  We all LOVED it!  The atmosphere was awesome, watching the people hustling and bustling to and fro.  Really neat!  I'm glad I picked a winner!  :)
After dinner we realized that we still had one thing left to do, and it was see the Empire State Building- McClain noted that we should do "Top of the Rock" where you go up in a TALL building and have a full view of the city, including the Empire State Building. So, we did got a cab, and went to the "Top of the Rock!"-  Awesome ending to an (almost) final trip in NYC.

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